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Video shows car flip over after crashing into gas pump

Shocking surveillance video shows a car slamming into a pump at a gas station, knocking it over and flipping upside down

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Updated: 3:46 PM PDT May 1, 2017

Video shows car flip over after crashing into gas pump

Shocking surveillance video shows a car slamming into a pump at a gas station, knocking it over and flipping upside down

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WEBVTT ON PUTTYHILL AVENUE THAT CRASHES RIGHTINTO THE STATION.>> I GOT MY CAR AND DROVE UP ANDSAW AMAZING, THE CAR WAS UPSIDEDOWN ON THE PUMPS AT THE CARROLLSTATION.>> HE RECALLS WHAT HE SAW AS HEOPENED UP FOR BUSINESS MONDAYMORNING.AT AROUND 455 A.M., SURVEILLANCECAMERAS WITH A COUPLE OFDIFFERENT ANGLES CAPTURED THE2007 MERCURY MILAN DRIVEN BY A64-YEAR-OLD MAN CAREENING OUT OFCONTROL DOWN PUTTY HILL AVENUEIN PARKVILLE, THEN CRASHING INTOA GAS PUMP AT THE CARROLL FUELSTATIO>> IT CAME THROUGH AND TOOK SOMEOF THE BUSHES OUT AND JUST TRIMTHEM FOR US.HOW HE GOT THROUGH AND FLIPPEDTHE WAY IT DID I DO NOT KNOW.FROM WHAT I SEE ON THE MARKS ITHAD TO GO AIRBORNE AND COME DOWNON THE PUMP.LOWELL CARBONACHECK: SAYS THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHERTHINGS FOR THE DRIVER TO HIT BUTHE DIDN'T LIKE, HIS SIGN, ATELEPHONE POLE, AND A TRAFFICSIGNAL.AS TO WHY THE CRASH DIDN'T CAUSEA FIRE OR EXPLOSIOCREWS FIXING THE PUMP LATER THE DAY TOLD 11-NEWS THESE SHEARVALVES PREVENTED DISASTE>> IF THE OUTSIDE DISPENSER GETSHIT BY A CAR IN OCTOBER, THATVALVE AUTOMATICAL OPENS ANDDROPS THE BALL IN THERE ANDSHUTS OFF ALL THE FUEL.LOWELL AND IT IS A GOOD THING IT: WORKED, AS BOTH GAS STATIONSHAVE A COMBINED ALMOST 50,000GALLONS OF FUEL UNDER GROUNDAS POLICE CONTINUE TOINVESTIGATE THIS CRASH, THEYTELL US ALCOHOL WAS NOT AFACTOR.IT COULD HAVE BEEN A HEALTHISSUE OR SIMPLY AN ACCIDENT.AS FAR AS THE DRIVERS CONDITION

Video shows car flip over after crashing into gas pump

Shocking surveillance video shows a car slamming into a pump at a gas station, knocking it over and flipping upside down

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PARKVILLE, Md. —

A 2007 Mercury Milan driven by a 64-year-old man around 4:55 a.m. Monday careened out of control down Putty Hill Avenue in Parkville and crashed into a gas pump near Baltimore. The pump has shear valves that prevented a fire and explosion.